Matt Fargo (22 page)
Authors: Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang From "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"
A Western-style bar, specializing in alcohol rather than food.
< SUNAKKU
A bar with flirty waitresses. Middle-aged dudes love these places,
< HOSUTESU KURABU
An expensive bar with younger girls who will drink with you and sometimes more, depending on your wallet and your demeanor.
< HOSUTESU KURABU
Ladies, don’t feel objectified! You, too, can pay to drink with handsome young men who might even chomp your box for a nominal fee!
< SUTORIPPU
A titty bar.
< NOMIKAI
A party.
Usually takes place at an izakaya (see page 46).
< ENKAI
Same as nomikai, but usually celebrating a specific thing.
< HANAMI
Spread out a picnic blanket beneath the cherry blossoms, and watch everyone proceed to drink until said picnic blanket is a kaleidoscopic Jackson Pollock of chunder.
< DONKĪ
Welcome to Don Quixote, the Japanese Wal-Mart. Not a place you want to go party at, but it’s open 24 hours and you can always find some interesting folks wandering the aisles at 3 a.m.
< NIJIKAI
The after party. This can be held at any of the above establishments, and often involves missing your train, puking on your friend’s shoes, and hitting on nameless coworkers.
< GŌKON / KOMPA
A dude invites his male friends, and a girl invites her female friends, and everybody gets drunk and feels each other out. At some point the girls go to the bathroom and decide who gets who. Basically it’s an institutionalized version of Friday night at the bar.
< ŌRU
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